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...Tutsis overflows into Zaire, the refugees' situation is rapidly deteriorating. Last month, U.N. officials touring the area visited a Zairian refugee camp with 400,000 inhabitants and found not a single well of fresh water. Such scarcity of food and water, as well as outbreaks of cholera, threaten the displaced political refugees, 100,000 more of whom are predicted to return to Rwanda in the next few weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Call Us Generation Apathy | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

Above all, for a lot of people the wonder drugs don't work any wonders. Estimates of how many patients show no improvement or can't tolerate the side effects vary from 15% to about 33%. For them, the promising developments all around only threaten to deepen their isolation. They worry about being left behind, artifacts of an earlier stage of the epidemic. "I've taken them all, and I've failed them all," says Ron Wilmot, 46, a Vietnam veteran whose weakened condition led him two years ago to sell his half of a San Francisco real estate firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: HOPE WITH AN ASTERISK | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

Campaign members are especially concerned that a termination of the protected status in Cambridge will threaten the city's diversity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Residents Hold Vigil to Protest Rent Increases, Evictions | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...takes fewer puffs to get high, thus cutting down on damage to the respiratory system, for example. On the other hand, stronger pot and higher kids lead to more reckless driving and car accidents. It is true that smoking pot is less harmful than heavy drinking and does not threaten one's life, as do addictions to harder drugs. Proselytical pot smokers love to point out that a fatal overdose would require, say, 40 lbs. of grass smoked over a period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS & POT | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...propose to kill anyone. I don't propose to threaten to kill anyone, but people act when they're afraid," Cleemann said...

Author: By Peggy S. Chen, | Title: U.C. Candidates Debate Visions For Leadership | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

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